Towards Coherence Between
Classroom Assessment and
Accountability
Selected Chapters from the 103rd
NSSE Yearbook
What is NSSE?
• National Society for the Study of Education
• Dedicated to: improvement of education research,
policy, and practice through scholarship and
discourse
• Scholars, professional educators and
administrators, policy makers, etc.
• Publishes 2 Yearbooks (free to members) each
year on current “interesting topics”
• Information about membership can be found on
the flyers
Motivations for Yearbook
• Concern: there has been insufficient attention paid
to the central place of the classroom in thinking
about the role of assessment in education and in
educational accountability
• Hence: discuss examples of research studies that
link classroom assessment and accountability in
multiple ways (Source articles)
• And: offer reflections on these efforts based on the
data and on their own varied experiences and
orientations (Commentaries)
Organization of Session
• Opening remarks by each panelist
– 10 mins max
– Dylan William, John Smithson, Mark Wilson,
Marjie Jorgensen
• Q&A and discussion, audience and panel
• Concluding remarks from panel